“U.S. continues push to restart plutonium pit production”
Physics Today, March 5, 2021
“The government is preparing two facilities to fabricate the cores of nuclear weapons despite concerns over the safety and necessity of the endeavor.”
The proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP), which would undermine national security, is being pushed by those who aim to profit by planning for full-scale nuclear war, not deterrence. Northrop Grumman would make the first missile – an unneeded ICBM, a program that could cost well over $100 billion – utilizing new pits.
article linked here: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20210305a/full/
Photo: Citizen affirmation for peace on January 21, 2021, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on entry-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of nuclear Weapons, courtesy Nuclear Watch New Mexico (https://nukewatch.org/)